He is a son of Harry Tipper III of St. Marys, Ga., and the late Kathleen Suzanne McQueen Tipper.
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"The tipper benefits personally because giving a gift of trading information is the same thing as trading by the tipper followed by a gift of the proceeds," he wrote.
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"In such situations, the tipper benefits personally because giving a gift of trading information is the same thing as trading by the tipper followed by a gift of the proceeds," he said.
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"Dirks specifies that when a tipper gives inside information to 'a trading relative or friend,' the jury can infer that the tipper meant to provide the equivalent of a cash gift," he said.
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Georgie Dru Hambright and Bradley Stockton Tipper were married Feb.
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For some reason we're talking about Tipper Gore and laughing.
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Dreeben fielded multiple questions from Justices Stephen Breyer and Samuel Alito pertaining to the significance of the tipper/tippee relationship and the extent to which the tipper knew the inside information would be traded on.
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Tipper and Al Gore as Beauty and The Beast in 1995.
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A Hollywood mega-star who happens to be a generous tipper.
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Teri's not just a cool mom, she's also a good tipper.
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He wasn't chatty, but they knew him as a good tipper.
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In that small group of people you could find your big tipper!
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It was really disturbing, more disturbing than Tipper Gore or anything else.
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And by the way, he was a hell of a good tipper.
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You won't have to worry about being a shitty tipper while traveling.
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Fretting about explicit lyrics in songs is very 1985 Tipper Gore, I know.
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Justice Samuel Alito, writing for the Court, said that precedent specifies that when a tipper gives inside information to a "trading relative or friend" the jury can infer that the tipper meant to provide the equivalent of a cash gift.
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But did Mickelson know about the personal benefit the original tipper, Davis, was receiving?
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Such a power coupling begs the question: Of the two, who's the better tipper?
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By night, he is a full-time free spirit, dedicated gambler and generous tipper.
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In 2017, Selby was revealed to be the generous tipper behind "Tips for Jesus."
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At approximately T-minus nine minutes and counting, Tipper ignited and we had liftoff.
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Dawn Richard) People Under The Stairs – Feels Good Tipper – Lattice TOKiMONSTA – Don't Call Me (ft.
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I had never heard of David Tipper, but Andrew (Android) introduced me to his music.
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The average tipper tips about 15% to 20%, regardless of the service or the industry.
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Tipper Gore co-founded the Parents Music Resource Center known for its "Parental Advisory" stickers.
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Rock music would do what it could to destroy itself; Tipper Gore needn't have worried.
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The (potentially) staged kiss between Al and Tipper Gore at the 2000 Democratic National Convention.
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"When I'm at restaurants, I am a big tipper," he told Jimmy Kimmel in 2017.
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Retired NBA star Shaquille O'Neal is "a big tipper," he told Jimmy Kimmel in 2017, and .
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"I would much rather be dealing with Tipper [Gore]," Violent J joked about his current predicaments.
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Newman, saying prosecutors needed to show a tipper received a tangible benefit for providing inside information.
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Her generation, she said, protested against Tipper Gore for wanting to put warning labels on records.
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Being a bad tipper might not be such a bad thing — at least, in some circumstances.
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They are not reactionaries in the Tipper Gore mode, trying to whip up a moral panic.
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"I'm a good tipper," the comedian told Howard Stern on his Sirius XM show on Wednesday morning.
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Ever since then I have always been a generous tipper, because it is a really tough job.
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"Definitely I'm the best tipper in our family, for sure," Dwyane Wade tells CNBC Make It, smiling.
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Mr. Trump isn't exactly a great tipper, but the guys he plays with are usually pretty generous.
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Much has been speculated about this kiss between then-presidential candidate Al Gore and his wife Tipper.
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Or a picture of himself and Barbara parodying that famous attenuated Al and Tipper Gore convention kiss?
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In addition to being an excellent tipper, Tom Hanks is a believer in a free—and caffeinated—press.
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Led by Tipper Gore, the group encouraged record companies to place advisory labels on albums with explicit lyrics.
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Tipper Gore is back in the spotlight with a renewed mission to shatter the stigma surrounding mental illness.
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Current law also requires that the government show that a benefit flowed from the tippee to the tipper.
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"When I'm at restaurants, I am a big tipper," the retired NBA star told Jimmy Kimmel in 2017.
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"When I'm at restaurants, I am a big tipper," the retired NBA star told Jimmy Kimmel in 2017.
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Proving it's more than just a mean-looking van, it's been fitted with a "Tipper Bed" for extra utility.
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She took a slight detour with Tipper Gore, wife of then-Vice President Al Gore, instead of Hillary Clinton.
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A good tipper, Paddock paid cash and always ordered the same thing - two medium mushroom pizzas with extra cheese.
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The anonymous tipper signed the receipt "Tips for Jesus" and uploaded a picture of it onto an Instagram account.
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That's probably because Clark and the woman have a lot in common right now -- the big tipper is pregnant too.
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He thought he could do whatever the hell he wanted because he was a good tipper, but he was wrong.
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Then she runs into Nathan (Kendrick Sampson), the $50 tipper from her season premiere "party Lyft," at a taco joint.
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In the 1980s, Vice President Al Gore's wife, Tipper Gore, waged war on the sometimes rough truth of hip hop.
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Sure, this era was the peak of Tipper Gore's anti-fun stance on music; she was still the Second Lady.
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Being a good tipper, it turns out, "doesn't necessarily correspond to cost of living and where you live," says Schulz.
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Some courts have found that it is enough if the tipper gives the information as a gift to the tippee.
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As a result, Casale said agents are increasingly focused on showing the tipper received a monetary or other tangible benefit.
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Gore, considered a wooden and robotic figure, sought to dispel that image with his long kiss and embrace of wife, Tipper.
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I often have to eat out, so I'm a pretty good tipper because I know how hard food service jobs are.
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In addition, the person who received the tip — the "tippee" — had to know that the tipper was receiving that personal benefit.
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Lynne Cheney and Tipper Gore Eminem has often played up his fights with those in power as a point of pride.
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I'm usually a generous tipper, but I hand him the exact amount in cash and skip the tip because of his tardiness.
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I want to be a generous tipper because I know what the economics are like for the person on the receiving end.
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We should eliminate the need to prove a "personal benefit" to the tipper, but not overrule the rest of the Dirks case.
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And Tipper Gore, the (now former) wife of former Vice President Al Gore, was trying to clamp down on the good stuff.
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Unfortunately, this has proved too safe a harbor, frustrating prosecutors by insulating remote tippees who are several steps removed from the original tipper.
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In the final section of the song, Eminem unloads on Cheney as well as Tipper Gore, the wife of Vice President Al Gore.
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To be guilty of insider trading, the tipper needs to personally benefit, directly or indirectly, from the disclosure, the Supreme Court has held.
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The Kokesh opinion pointed out that in insider trading cases, a tipper could be responsible for disgorgement of any gains made by tippees.
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Cab drivers in the area often compete to drive him, as he is a very good tipper, according to The New York Times.
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Newman that the government must prove a remote tippee knew that there was some beneficial connection between the original tipper and the tippee.
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The court said a jury can infer that the tipper personally benefited from making a gift of confidential information to a trading relative.
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"And, as Dominique Tipper (who plays Naomi Nagata) put it, "There&aposs more sex, which we all need more of in our lives.
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That made it difficult to fathom how a tippee could be liable when the tipper did not rate being accused of violating the law.
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Ice Cube, 19923, was once a member of NWA, a group that, like GNR, attracted the ire of parental watchdogs led by Tipper Gore.
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Thus, a trader who knows (or recklessly disregards) that his information was wrongfully obtained should be liable regardless of the benefit to the tipper.
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My generation made fun of Tipper Gore in the 1980s, when she urged music companies to label record covers when the lyrics were obscene.
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Until Newman, this benefit was construed quite broadly, and could easily be inferred if the tipper and tippee were relatives, friends or even acquaintances.
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Galactagogues can be broadly defined as "foods, drinks, herbs, supplements, or medications that are said to increase milk supply," explains Tipper Gallagher, a Minneapolis/St.
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Prosecutors in New York have to search for something tangible passed between the tipper and tippee to get a case in front of a jury.
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Securities and Exchange Commission, which said a gift of inside information to family or friends could be enough to prove a benefit to a tipper.
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Beto O'Rourke is one loyal son of a gun ... and a great tipper according to his barber who says they go back almost a decade.
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That's probably not true; Shaq has had a long-standing reputation as being an excellent tipper, stretching back to his first few seasons in the NBA.
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The Expanse, on the other hand, had already featured actresses of color in its first season, including Iranian American actress Shohreh Aghdashloo and black actress Dominique Tipper.
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The BBC banned it from daytime playlists, U.S. radio stations refused to add it, and Tipper Gore, founder of the PMRC, no doubt lost sleep over it.
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This, of course, is by no means the wrong take to have; you don't have to be Tipper Gore to think people shouldn't make anti-Semitic gags.
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Salman lost as the court held the tipper, Maher Kara, benefitted personally from disclosing private information to his brother, Mounir Kara, who passed it on to Salman.
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Shapiro argued, similar to Newman, the court should require the government to show the tipper received, at the very least, something concrete in exchange for the tip.
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He informs them that this is because he'd caddied for their family patriarch as a teenager, and the patriarch had been a colossal jerk and hideous tipper.
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Conceived by the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC), the committee led by Tipper Gore ruled that in 1985 all albums containing objectionable content must exhibit these warning stickers.
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In reaching that result, the appeals court added what appeared to be a new requirement to prove what constitutes a benefit that must be received by the tipper.
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It's like a medicine, or a bottle of wine–I don't see many people complaining about it, not since Tipper Gore and all them a long time ago.
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In Newman, the court ruled that a "personal benefit" must amount to a pecuniary gain or quid pro quo, raising the bar for the establishment of tipper/tippee liability.
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The limits of the liability of tippees who are further removed from the tipper can be seen in a chart the Securities and Exchange Commission attached to its complaint.
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He praised Vice President Al Gore and his wife Tipper for policy contributions, even as Gore sought to distance himself from the scandal-plagued Clinton on the campaign trail.
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A Duke professor, impressed by Mr. Fairfax's political talent, helped him land a job out of school on Al Gore's 2000 presidential campaign, compiling briefing books for Tipper Gore.
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Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton stood with vice president Al Gore and his wife, Tipper, and shook hands as they stood beneath the Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington.
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The Court held that its prior decision in Dirks made clear that a tip to a relative or friend satisfies the requirement that the tipper personally benefit from the tip.
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Big John is a big tipper, said Mr. Goldman, who recalled an evening when Big John called for more drinks for his group after the club's tiki bar had closed.
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The court found that a securities fraud statute added to the Dodd-Frank Act does not require prosecutors to prove that the tipper received a personal benefit from the tippee.
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Newman, which added a wrinkle to the analysis of when tipping involved a gift that was sufficient to show the tipper received a benefit, a prerequisite to violating the law.
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Tipper, of "anal vapors" fame, became the spokesperson in the 1980s for the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC), an organization responsible for censoring song lyrics and labeling records for explicit content.
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A 1955 article in The Times described her firing a shot while pursuing a "seat tipper" — a criminal who tips back a folding seat to nab a purse — in a theater.
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Even politicians get into the fun, like when former Vice President Al Gore and his wife Tipper dressed up as the Beast and Belle from "Beauty and the Beast" in 1995.
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Never afraid to speak his mind or cause controversy, Eminem has variously slammed Bill and Hillary Clinton, Lynne Cheney, Tipper Gore and scores of other politicians he saw as hypocritical leaders.
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Imagine ending a long and celebrated marriage — as he and Tipper did, in 2010 — and having the restraint and discretion to prevent that from becoming anything close to a media spectacle.
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"The Chairman obviously recognizes the irony of the SEC potentially serving as the unwitting tipper in an insider trading scheme," said John Reed Stark, a former SEC staff member and cyber expert.
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Furthermore, modern artists should go to YouTube and dig up the footage of Frank Zappa and Dee Snyder testifying in front of Tipper Gore and the Parents Music Resource Center in 1985.
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A 1987 edition of the "Just Say No!" board game—surely Nancy Reagan and Tipper Gore approved—sat in a glass case as a monument to the US's anti-drug PR machine.
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Because, the court said, for a crime to have been committed, the company insider — the so-called tipper — had to have received a personal benefit in return for offering up inside information.
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Shapiro said the tipper's brother pestered him constantly for information, the tipper received no personal benefit from the gift and he didn't know the information would be used downstream for trading purposes.
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Songs like W.A.S.P.'s "Animal (Fuck Like a Beast)" and Motley Crue's "Bastard" were so shocking to Baby Boomer parents that they led to Tipper Gore's Parents Music Resource Center's Filthy Fifteen.
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When Tipper Gore, the wife of then-Senator Al Gore, heard the song while listening to the album with her 11-year-old daughter, she began a fight against explicit album lyrics.
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The result will certainly be courts inquiring into the relationships of tippers and tippees, trying to determine if they're close enough that the tipper got a "benefit" from giving away the information.
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It's a VHS, and this is back when Tipper Gore—a total drag who hated fun and art and thought—was responsible for labelling music and she got the "parental advisory" stickers going.
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Instead of proving a benefit, the proposal would require the government to show the tipper made an unauthorized disclosure of information that the person knew would be used by the tippee to trade.
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"Even though you didn't purchase the bottle from the restaurant, the server opened it and served it to you, plus being a good tipper is just a good rule to follow," they advise.
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He is doing what Tipper Gore, Laura Bush, Michelle Obama and Ann Romney were supposed to: loosen, soften and warm up the images of their spouses, in part by veering away from politics.
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When Tipper Gore, the wife of Al Gore, then a senator, heard the song while listening to the album with her 11-year-old daughter, she began a fight against explicit album lyrics.
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That is the question now before the Supreme Court: what does the person giving the information (the "tipper") have to get in exchange (from the "tippee") for the tippee's trades to be criminal?
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Justice Alito explained that requiring the government to show more to prove the benefit would create an inconsistency in the law by letting the tipper avoid liability in one situation but not another.
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He goes for the ol' Tipper Gore one-two of "violence oftentimes manifests itself during their performances" and "This world has not reformed," a real winner that appeals to the old school, there.
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WAITER MADE UP STORY ABOUT &aposRACIST&apos TIPPER: RESTAURANT Megan Pashea, the proprietor and manager of 1818 Chophouse, shared video from her Nest cam on social media asking for any information on the teens.
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Christopher Good's "Crude Oil" is the most ambitious narrative film in the group, trying to capture a years-spanning friendship — between bossy Lynn (Tipper Newton) and mousy Jenny (Andreina Byrne) — in just 15 minutes.
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Prosecutors had long pursued insider trading cases in which information was given to family and friends, taking the position that almost any personal relationship was enough to show that the tipper received a benefit.
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All of the cases involving a tipper and tippee brought this year came after prosecutors secured guilty pleas from cooperators, suggesting authorities are using such witnesses to help them overcome the new legal hurdles.
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And while Wade, 36, may be the better tipper, the athlete says that Union, 45, has always been on top of her finances and has helped him learn the ropes when it comes to money.
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The U.S. Supreme Court must now determine whether a gift of information to family or a friend is enough to prove "benefit" for a tipper suspected of insider trading, following oral arguments in Salman v.
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COOPERATING WITNESSES All of the cases involving a tipper and tippee brought this year came after prosecutors secured guilty pleas from cooperators, suggesting authorities are using such witnesses to help them overcome the new legal hurdles.
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If you eat out often enough, you probably have Strong Feelings about leaving a tip for your server, and unless you're Milo Yiannopoulos or my late grandmother, you may consider yourself to be a generous tipper.
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Turns out Andre Roberson might not be such a bad tipper after all ... 'cause the OKC Thunder star took his family out to dinner Thursday night and showed some love with a 30% tip this time!!
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"The chairman obviously recognizes the irony of the SEC potentially serving as the unwitting tipper in an insider trading scheme," said John Reed Stark, president of a cyber consulting firm and a former SEC staff member.
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On that one, he used the pseudonym Alexander Nevermind, presumably so that when the song enraged Tipper Gore, the head of the Parents Music Resource Center — and it did — he could restring his guitars in peace.
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The way forward is to carve out a subset of relationships — close friends and family — for which a benefit to the tipper is presumed, but to require more exacting proof when the disclosure is to others.
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They pulled back from claiming the Supreme Court had scuttled the Newman ruling in its entirety and held that the "meaningfully close personal relationship" requirement was merely one way of proving the benefit to a tipper.
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The appeals court went so far as to say that giving information to a "perfect stranger" by saying "you can make a lot of money trading on this" would be enough to hold the tipper liable.
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Two of my favorite characters are women of color: Naomi Nagata, portrayed with incredible force and command by Dominique Tipper, is the brilliant chief engineer of a range of spaceships that our core cast find themselves on.
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That left some question as to whether prosecutors in New York would need to prove a meaningful close relationship between the tipper and the recipient of material, nonpublic information in cases involving people who were not relatives.
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And if they can show Atlas tipped Cooperman to influence his trading decisions, then this case could turn on whether the tipper received a personal benefit from supplying information – the issue before the Supreme Court in Salman.
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The show mainly follows the crew of the Rocinante: Captain Jim Holden (Steven Strait), pilot Alex Kamal (Cas Anvar), engineer Naomi Nagata (Dominique Tipper), and mechanic Amos Burton (Wes Chatham), who come from all parts of the system.
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" Her days in Nashville also include trips to Walmart and the popular establishments Winners (bar) and Losers (grill) — where she always tips 30 percent because she "wants to be known for good things like being a big tipper.
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The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that to prove insider trading, prosecutors must establish that a tipper received a benefit in exchange for the information that was not just friendship but of "some consequence," like money.
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That's colliding with a weird censorship creep that smacks of Tipper Gore-era pearl-clutching and an attempt to moralise something as broad and amorphous as an entire festival line-up and every one of its 40,000+ attendees.
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Although Congress never defined the crime itself, in 1984 and again in 1988, it did enact legislation that increased the penalties for violations of S.E.C. regulations and made the recipient of insider information as guilty as the tipper.
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The Supreme Court could decide the case by simply reiterating its position in the decision on the Dirks case about gifts between family members, which would not require proving anything of monetary value passed between the tipper and tippee.
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Mr. Salman's argument for overturning his conviction hinges on the Newman decision, which tightened the standard for what constitutes a personal benefit by requiring prosecutors to show a tangible benefit rather than mere friendship between the tipper and recipient.
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He argued that it is a violation any time confidential information is given for a noncorporate purpose with the expectation that the recipient will trade, without regard to the relationship between the tipper and the person receiving the tip.
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The hurdle to proving unlawful tipping created by the Newman decision will be washed away, putting the focus on identifying some form of gift without having to dig too deeply into the relationship of the tipper and the recipient.
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To prove insider trading based on tips, the government must show that the tipper received a benefit for giving out confidential information to establish a breach of a duty of trust and confidence rather than for an innocent reason.
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Being a generous tipper is one way to be an ally of the restaurant workers, but the more people understand the reality of living on a server's wages, the more likely we are to transform the industry's wage policies.
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If Spotify continues down this path, then artists need to realize they have the power to make Spotify suffer the same fate as the Tipper Gore group – an extinct laughingstock and stain on the history of free expression through music.
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Adding a new one, the federal appeals courts in each city have taken different approaches to the type of benefit a tipper must receive in exchange for inside information to make trading on it a violation of the securities laws.
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" Whitehouse said Senate Republicans have long been saying the Senate should be making important decisions with no less than 60 votes "and nothing's more important than a Supreme Court appointment, particularly one that is a balance-tipper like the present one.
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Supreme Court hears insider trading arguments: The U.S. Supreme Court must now determine whether a gift of information to family or a friend is enough to prove "benefit" for a tipper suspected of insider trading, following oral arguments in Salman v.
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The appeals court held that the government must offer proof of "a meaningfully close personal relationship that generates an exchange that is objective, consequential and represents at least a potential gain of a pecuniary or similarly valuable nature" between the tipper and tippee.
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At worst, it appears as though Spotify – as a company that prides itself on artistic musical expression from countless genres – is wading ever so slightly into censorship territory previously reserved for satanic panic witch hunts, like Tipper Gore's Parents Music Resource Center.
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Unlike securities fraud, the elements of wire fraud do not require proving a breach of fiduciary duty by the tipper from receiving a benefit from the tippee, only that the defendant obtained money or property by means of a scheme to defraud.
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"Today's announcement is an early step towards ensuring customers can access a range of refueling choices over the coming decades, as new technologies evolve to co-exist with traditional transport fuels," Matthew Tipper, Shell's Vice President for New Fuels, said in a statement.
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The lawyer arguing for Mr. Salman, Alexandra A. E. Shapiro, asked the justices on Wednesday to bless the Newman decision's tangible benefit test, arguing that the government must prove there was an exchange that resulted in some financial gain to the tipper.
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From the days of Tipper Gore's fears about weed in lyrics to 'Soundcloud rap' and Future's molly and Percocet bars today, drugs have (as they did in rock, and before that, the blues) walked hand-in-hand with the genre's public image.
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Indeed in the 1980s and again in the 1990s you would find moralistic feminists — of all different sorts, from Andrea Dworkin to Tipper Gore — allying with social conservatives over pornography, misogynistic song lyrics, and other cultural effluvia that violated both of their ideals.
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In that case, the court upheld securities fraud convictions based on information that passed between two brothers to their friend and future brother-in-law, finding that the tipper received a benefit even though there was no exchange of any pecuniary value.
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But the three-judge panel said on Wednesday that after the Salman ruling, the requirement in the Newman case that prosecutors must show the tipper and recipient of inside information had a "meaningfully close personal relationship" among other things was no longer valid.
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The advantage of charging this offense is that prosecutors do not have to establish the insider trading requirements of a breach of a duty to maintain the confidentiality of information or knowledge of a benefit provided by a tippee to a tipper.
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So sexy that it sparked Tipper Gore and other political wives to form a new group devoted to making music less sexy: RIP Prince, who made a song so sexy they had to invent an entire thing to warn parents about sexy songs pic.twitter.
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The defendant in the Salman case filed a brief urging the court to adopt the Newman test that would require some proof of a valuable benefit exchanged between the tipper and tippee, not just warm feelings generated by making a gift to a family member.
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Big City Late last week, Cyrus Vance Jr., the Manhattan district attorney, trumpeted what he clearly considered was a big win for his office — the conviction of Anna Sorokin, the fictitious heiress, the party-girl swindler, the Robin Hood tipper, the danger to minibars.
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The law requires only that the government show the information was given to others with the intention that they trade on it and that the tipper received a benefit, which can be something as simple as cash or a gift to family or friends.
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The case resolved a split between the federal appeals courts in New York and California over what kind of benefit the recipient of inside information has to provide to the tipper to show there has been a breach of duty to keep information confidential.
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The court, if it can muster five votes, could affirm Salman's conviction and reject the ruling in Newman and Chiasson's case, holding that even inside information shared purely from the affinities of family or friendship, without any "material benefit" to the tipper, cannot be used to trade.
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The roommates previously settled with the S.E.C., but their relationship is the key to proving whether Mr. Payton and Mr. Durant should have known a benefit was passed to the tipper in exchange for the information about I.B.M.'s plan to acquire SPSS that they eventually traded on.
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The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that the government must show that each recipient who trades on the information, called a tippee, knew the tipper received a benefit from providing the information to prove there was a breach of duty need for securities fraud.
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The latest charges show that the Justice Department and S.E.C. have recovered from the setback caused by the Second Circuit's decision in Newman that at one point caused the dismissal of charges against a number of defendants because prosecutors lacked proof of a tangible benefit to the tipper.
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Take away the big major hits that made him a giant and think for a second on what kind of person could claim the color purple, dress like a musketeer on mushrooms, ride a motorcycle, piss off Tipper Gore, write "Batdance," and attend Record Store Day shortly before his death?
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Violent video games are an easy target for figures like parent groups, Tipper Gore, and President Trump who have tried to assign blame incidents like mass shootings by young perpetrators on violence in media, but research has found no evidence that violent movies and video games encourage real-world attacks.
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The lawyers for both sides offered a stark contrast, with Mr. Salman's lawyer asking for a much narrower reading of insider trading law, while the government lawyer sought to make almost any disclosure subject to prosecution if it could be shown that the tipper knew that the information would be used for trading.
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When the case reached the Supreme Court, it, too, saw Mr. Dirks as the hero and reshaped the law to give security analysts a protective safe harbor: The "tippee" who is given the inside information is liable only when the "tipper receives a direct or indirect personal benefit from the disclosure" — in effect, a bribe of some kind.
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Federal law does not define insider trading — it bars only "manipulative" or "deceptive" conduct — but courts have said it is a crime for an insider (the tipper) intentionally or recklessly to share information that he or she has a duty to keep confidential, and to receive a personal benefit, directly or indirectly, from giving the tip.
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The kind of rap lyrics that openly celebrated guns, murder, misogyny, greed and profanity are no longer in mainstream fashion as they once were, but there was a time when a certain contingent -- Tipper Gore, C. Delores Tucker, legions of editorialists -- devoted quite a bit of time to assailing these rappers as scourges of society -- poor role models for minority youth, dangerous to women, polluting society with filthy language and so on.
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